Cookbook:Crystallised Orange Peel

Ingredients

 * 3 organic or unwaxed oranges (Sevilles are good)
 * 90 g caster sugar (twice)
 * 220 ml water (twice)

Procedure

 * 1) Peel just the skin of the washed, dried orange with a potato peeler (include only skin, no white pith).
 * 2) Boil the peels in a syrup made from the sugar and water for 5 minutes. Remove peels from syrup.
 * 3) Dry peels on a wire rack for 4 hours.
 * 4) Boil peels again in a fresh syrup. Dry again on the wire rack until brittle (about 48 hours).
 * 5) Grind in a clean coffee grinder and store in a sealed container.

Notes, tips, and variations

 * Using a fan oven set on the lowest setting (100 °C) with the door slightly ajar to allow free passage of air will dry the peel in under 8 hours.